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p.s. Hey. So, it's my birthday today and all that, for better or worse, and who and how better to mark this ambiguous occasion than one of my oldest friends aka d.l. Bernard Welt and a trip in his erotica-tuned time machine. Hence, your post du jour and your hopeful enjoyment. Dig, speak, etc., and big thanks to my honorable buddy B. ** David Ehrenstein, Thanks, David! Yes, Jeff Weiss is an incredible genius and, to my mind, maybe the true heir apparent of his era to Jack Smith. The works I saw by Weiss in his 80s heyday are some greatest live anythings I've ever seen, and even though his basic refusal to have his work filmed and documented is part of the magic, it's also really sad to me that people now can't experience what he made to even that filtered degree. Thank you mightily for the Nico post. You are too kind, as ever. ** Math, Thanks, big M. Yeah, I just wrote you a moment ago, and hopefully I'll have the great luck to see you a little later on. ** Jeff, Hey. You're still my friend, and you're still welcome here any time you want. I just couldn't let what you said go by without expressing my disdain. I think you're more liked and respected around here than you can accept. I just think it's difficult sometimes to know how to respond to your dogged fatalism and antinatalism. You know I don't share your viewpoint there, and, in my case at least, I don't see much point to keep saying I don't agree over and over, especially since you seem very hardline on those issues. And, you know, there are people in this community who have children, and possibly others who intend to have them, and your attacking, inflexible attitude about giving birth is probably something of a conversation stopper in some cases. Which is not to say your doing that is unacceptable, but is just to say this place is generally about supportiveness and seeking common ground and respecting one another's opinions and choices and philosophies, including yours. I just find myself having to sidestep some your statements because your entrenchment doesn't encourage dialogue, I guess. I don't know what the solution is, and maybe there isn't one, but I don't think the solution is your leaving here because you're an interesting and valuable presence. And changing the subject is totally fine, sure, and let's do that. ** OscarDavid, Hey, man! Great to see you! I'm really glad to hear that Laura Palmer is up and doing great things and finding its way into the world. I'm really proud to be a part of it, and I thank you a lot for that. I'm thrilled to have the link, and on first look just now, it looks amazing, and I'll be following the site closely. I'm guessing that, since you posted the link, it's okay to share it? Everyone, OscarDavid is this amazing guy who is behind a new site called Laura Palmer, 'a platform for creative collaboration & academic discourse', and I think if you click this link and go have a look, you'll see what a valuable and impressive project it is. And there's a recent video interview with me in there somewhere. Anyway, I encourage you passionately to go have a look and become involved by reading regularly or even collaborating, if you so choose. Thanks again so much! See you over on LP, and take care. ** Patrick deWitt, Hey. Super interesting. Yeah, my reference is about a legendary French magician, and the tipping off or excitement point for the novel is a revelation that when he makes his assistant disappear as part of one trick, the assistant is, for the time she is invisible, more important than the more famous magician. It's hard to explain. Anyway, yeah, different kind of reference, but beautiful in the common ground sense. ** Bernard Welt, Thank you making my blog celebrate my birthday accordingly. Wow, that would quite an interesting for-credit course, thanks in no small part to your part in its curriculum. You getting walloped by the supposed snowstorm down there? I think we might just get dusted here, I hope. ** Kiddiepunk, Hey, kiddo! It seems like you guys have been down for years. Sounds splendid. I'm going back to our home tomorrow where Yury tells me it's virtually spring-like at the moment. I'll try to keep it warm until you guys get back. Oh, and there are two really cool sounding shows we should see when you get home at the European Photography museum and Maison Rouge. Love to you, buddy! ** Oscar B, And there you are, my other buddy! Things are good here, yeah. Such a quick trip. I feel like I was hardly here. It's fucking freezing cold, though, and my lips are like bread crusts. I hope you're over the cold now. Have tons 'o fun, of course, and I'll count the days 'til you're safely back in our mutual internet hell. ** JoeM, Hey, Joe. Yeah, NYC is pretty lively, at least at the moment. Big fun, tons to see, a lot of it actually wild. I read that suicide note the other day. Fascinating, no? I would guess that Tao did get married to get married. I think he's actually a quite sincere guy, he just likes his things have a public presence and consequence. He has already created quite a scene in NYC between his presence, his books, his blog, his Muumuu publishing venture, etc. etc. He's kind of the polarizing American literary figure du jour, and not just in NYC, basically. I'm a big fan. ** Sypha, Hey. Cool, thanks a lot getting those books. Yeah, all credit for how great the books look go to Joel Westendorf, mastermind of their physical appearance. ** James, Hi. Yeah, money, ugh and fuck. Oh, my novel is called 'The Marbled Swarm'. Odd title, but you'll see why if you read it. Nice to see you, man. ** Alexp336, Hey. Yeah, it's a total boon and honor for my imprint to be able to rerelease 'Cows', for sure. You a straight laced boy? I would never have guessed, ha ha. Turning 30, nice. It is actually. I always say this, for whatever it's worth, but I didn't even publish my first novel until I was in my late 30s. I always think it's important to support that fact that on the 'achieving things' front, there really is no time limit. Glad you're brain is back, and that was actually some pretty impressive typing for a touch screen. I'm still kind of lost, typing-wise, without a keyboard. ** Pilgarlic, Hey. Yeah, it sounds like Atlanta is going to end up getting all the snow that New York was predicted to get a few days ago. I was in Atlanta in a blizzard once in the 90s. It sure was pretty, and it sure was a big hassle too. They're putting you up in a hotel? That's ... odd, interesting, but I love staying in hotels, I must admit. Hope you get through that okay, and, yeah, weather reports please. ** Empty Frame, Thank you a lot, man! ** Colin, He put out 'All Ears' in France. He was the head of an indie publishing venture for a couple of years. I can't recall its name at the moment. I'll look it up. Oh, Didier Lestrade too? Now I'm really curious to get to Paris and read the novel. You good? Hope so. ** Creative Massacre, Hey, pal. Wow, I just watched a bit of one of those Mysterio links. I hadn't seen him pre-WWE. Yeah, he was even more crazy in the air then. Nice. Thanks a lot. I'll finish watching the clips a bit later. ** Steevee, Sorry to hear about the sleep issues. Maybe, yeah, it's the med, and I know that with me, sometimes my body needs a few days to get itself unlocked from my bad sleeping habits. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. Thanks for thinking the post deserves scrutiny. I really look forward to cracking the Bobby Orlando Day, for sure. I'll probably get to it and get it set up as soon as I get back to Paris and my normal blog leisure time. Thanks, man. ** Tim Jones_Yelvington, Hey, Tim! A pleasure to see you, my friend, and thanks much. What are you working on at the moment? ** Andrew, Hm, I can't remember if Ish got the title from that old film or whether it was just coincidence. I'll ask him today. Ann Liv Young is performing in the same festival with us. I missed the show, but I guess she ate a bunch of raw fish and spit or vomited it on the audience or something like that and something very her. ** JW Veldhoen, JW, old pal! Here you are! Stick around, man, and thank for the b'day wish. ** Inthemostpeculiarway, Hey. I still haven't managed to get any regular SyFY programming. The last time I switched on, I was so happy to see any 'horror' movie that I actually watched most of 'Ghost Ship' again even though I'd already seen it and it's pretty weak. I'm wearing my only pair of shoes: Paul Smith tennis shoes with a hole in bottom of one of them. Oh, yeah, the 'Morvern Callar' movie is wonderful, isn't it? I love the novel that it's based on even more. It's really fantastic. Did you see 'Ratcatcher', her first film? That's beautiful too. I just love the idea of it snowing in Texas. It's so spooky or something. Even a short blast. Of course it helps immensely that you were the one describing it. My weekend, let's see ... I can't remember what I did post-blog and pre-performance on Saturday. Probably not too much. Then I walked over to the venue, and we prepped for the show, and all that. I think the show went really well, despite the tight space. Maybe it added more intensity even, I don't know. It was kind of stressful because about 80% of the audience was made up of presenters and curators scouting the show for their venues, and they never say much that's concrete after the show, and then maybe they'll ask to present the show weeks or months later, so we'll see. They seemed to like it, though. I talked to two European curators after the gig, and they were all 'it was intense, I've never seen anything like that before, wow', etc. So, it went good. Then I met up with Nb and Misanthrope for dinner in Little Italy at this kind of great, old fashioned Italian restaurant with really good food and lots Italian 'characters' hanging out there. A Mafia looking guy, an extremely tiny and old feisty lady, etc. Then I think I just came back to where I'm staying and saw about the murders in Arizona and watched TV coverage of that for a while and crashed. Yesterday, I did some work, and then I met up with Nb and Misanthrope again -- who seem to be my regular pals on this trip -- for tea and scones at this really great tea house in the Easy Village, Podunk, run by this Dutch Minnesota woman who dresses like an 18th century milkmaid. Recommended if you're in that area. It's on 5th Street between Cooper Union and Second Avenue. Then we walked to the venue, and I bought the dancers a box of those homemade Donut Plant donuts. And a couple for me. Again, if you or anyone ever goes to Donut Plant, get the coconut cream donut. Holy shit, it's good. The performance was again packed with presenters and curators, but in a slightly smaller percentage. I think that performance was better than the first one. No problems. People seemed to love it. Then most of the 'Them' gang went off to this big performance art party called American Pussy Faggot Realness, and I went out and had cold sesame noodle in Chinatown because I've been dying to eat them for about four years or something. They were a bit designery, the noodles, but it was good, and then I came back here, watched some TV, crashed. It doesn't sound like such an eventful couple of days, but I think that's just my spaciness affecting my brain/ descriptive abilities. Anyway, one more show this afternoon, and it's my birthday too, and we'll just see what happens all in all. How did you spend my birthday, ha ha? ** Frank Jaffe, Hey, Frank! Thanks a lot for hoping my birthday is happy. Oh, wow, uh, I don't know which poems of mine would blow a crowd away, ha ha. I really don't. Gosh, I think you'll have to pick something and take a chance. Tell me what you chose and what the crowd did, even if they booed or whatever. Thanks a lot, Frank! ** Bill, Thanks, Bill. I'm glad you made it back with brain cells to spare. Hope your jetlag isn't too murderous. I'll let you know how mine is in a day or two. ** Blake Wood, Hey, Blake! How are you, man? What's going on? Cool to see you, and thanks for the future roses. I'll know just what to do with them when the time comes, you bet. Love and even some blood to you too. ** Brendan, Thanks a lot, B! ** 'Stoopid Slapped Puppies', Hi, Nick! Thank you. My ear bitten ... ha ha, I must have told you about my grandpa's ear biting habits, didn't I? Lots of love to you. Really thrilled to see your blog is back in glorious action. ** Jax, Hey, Jack! Thanks, pal. Oh, like a real sucker punch type flu? Yikes. Yeah, I haven't had one of those in a long time. Glad you're better, and, yeah, I'll get some new shoes, I guess, sigh. I guess I have to. ** Paul Curran, Thanks a lot, Paul, and love to you too. ** Flit, Flitster! How excellent to see you, my bro in Pandom. Thanks much. How are you? What's going on in your hood? ** Scunnard, Hey. Luck? You've got in spades. Don't think you need it, though. Yeah, I'm seriously game and excited to collab whenever and however, and I'll watch closely for the absent art posts. Great idea! ** Esther Planas, Esther! Buddy, buddy! Thank you! New computer? Well, that's the best news I've heard in a while. Much love to you! ** Schlix, Hey, Uli! Thank you a lot, man. Are you doing okay? I've been thinking about you. Take care, and, yeah, let me know how you're doing. ** Toniok, Thanks a lot, man! ** Right. Feast your eyes on Bernard's array today, and I'll be doing whatever my birthday allows me to do, and I'll meet you back here in the morning. Love to everybody!
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